January 2005
Another year has come and gone. Ronnie and I will be married fourteen years this April. I have been evangelizing twenty years and serving God thirty years. It seems like yesterday I was being introduced to Jesus Christ by my brother. It seems like a few days ago I was preaching my first sermon in Mineral Bluff, Georgia. I thought it was only yesterday I gave my notice at Chattanooga Prison Ministries to go full time in evangelism.
Since then there have been hundreds of churches, mission trips to Africa, Jamaica and the Cayman Islands…revivals in England and Canada and half of the states in America. We’ve held home prayer meetings, tent revivals, rented convention centers, held ladies retreats, youth crusades, and campmeetings…preached to standing-room-only crowds, had people drive off with no place to park and no room in the sanctuary…then we have preached to five. We’ve seen many delivered from drugs, alcohol, depression, and healed both in their emotions and their physical body. We have been financially blessed at times and also charged our gas to get out of town. We’ve known the favor of people and also when they forget to return and say thank you.
In all these years, we have preached for some of the best pastors God called into ministry. We’ve had to say goodbye to some (far too many) and are returning this year to share the pulpit with many more.
In thirty years we have become a great family. God has allowed us the privilege of praying with and preaching to some of His best jewels!
We look forward to what He has in store for this another year to serve Him with you. His grace has been sufficient thus far and His grace will lead us home.
Thank you for all the prayers, the confidence, your monthly partner gifts and your one time love offerings that have helped to make all this possible.
We look forward to seeing you this year in your local churches. We have also rented the Smoky Mountain Convention Center in Pigeon Forge for our Fourth Annual Spring Family Retreat in the beautiful Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. We hope you will make plans to meet us Easter weekend (Thursday 7PM, Friday 10AM & 7PM and Saturday 10AM) for a refreshing touch of His presence. There will be preaching, praying, singing and wonderful fellowship in the presence of the Lord. We will provide another buffet lunch following the Friday morning meeting. Mark your calendar for March 24-26! Bring your family! Come expecting to receive your touch from Him!
We are also renting the Opry House in Woodruff, SC in February and the National Guard Armory in Harlan, KY in May. We hope to draw old friends together again, meet new friends and reach a lost generation that perhaps would not have come to a local church. We have scheduled Saturday morning ladies meetings in Woodruff February 5th and in Johnson City, TN on March 5th. This is a great time for the women to come together for a special service geared to their needs with always a sweet presence from His throne room and then great fellowship afterwards. I hope you will make time just for yourself on one of these Saturdays!
Our goal and mission for 2005 is to see more souls saved and hearts renewed by His touch! God bless you. We love you. See you soon! ……..Ronnie and Becky